Creeping decay: cult soundtracks, residual media, and digital technologies [PDF]
New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2014 This paper explores the recent resurgence in the collecting of cult film soundtracks, in particular films stemming from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and often linked to horror and other modes of exploitation cinema. I consider this phenomenon as an important component of cult film fandom, but one which has largely been overlooked in cult cinema ...
Sexton, Jamie
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Stepping out of the Ivory Tower: A Sociological Engagement in ‘The Cult Wars’ [PDF]
Methodological Innovations, 2011 The paper describes how the author's research into a new religious movement in the 1970s led to her finding herself a player in the ‘cult wars’, with a variety of different groups competing to have their constructions of images of the movements accepted ...
Eileen Barker
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Trans-cult-ural fandom: Desire, technology and the transformation of fan subjectivities in the Japanese female fandom of Hong Kong stars [PDF]
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2013 This essay examines the ways in which affective desire and new media technologies were mobilized by Japanese female fans of Hong Kong films and stars to produce a fan subjectivity that was at once cult and transcultural. The origins of this fandom, which
Lori Hitchcock Morimoto
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‘Being in a knowledge space’: Information behaviour of cult media fan communities [PDF]
Journal of Information Science, 2016 This article describes the first two parts of a three-stage study investigating the information behaviour of fans and fan communities, focusing on fans of cult media. A literature analysis shows that information practices are an inherent and major part of fan activities, and that fans are practitioners of new forms of information consumption and ...
Price, L., Robinson, L.
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Media as Religion. Stardom as Religion. Really? Christian Theological Confrontation
Religions, 2020 In the more recent scholarly literature on media, pop culture or celebrity studies, there has been a growing tendency to identify media, stardom and other pop culture forms of cult with religion.
Terézia Rončáková
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The Sims: A Retrospective - A Participatory Culture 14 Years On [PDF]
, 2014 A review of the original Sims game and how fans are attempting to preserve the game and its assets through digital archives and other participatory practices.
Ludovica Price
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The artist speaks: the interview as documentation [PDF]
, 2000 Nearly every exhibition catalogue now contains an interview with, or related statement by, the artist. How and why did this become the norm? The increasing popularity of the artist's words is traced back in this article to its roots in Romanticism, the ...
Bury, Stephen, Scott, Helen
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Sexual transgression on the American stage: Clyde Fitch, Sapho, and the 'American Girl' [PDF]
, 2013 Clyde Fitch's play, Sapho (1900), is significant in the history of theatre censorship in America as a result of the arrests of the leading actress, Olga Nethersole, and several of her entourage.
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Terrains/Théories, 2022 This article compares two versions of the informal and controversial cult of the image of Death in Latin America, Santa Muerte in Mexico and San la Muerte in Argentina.
Maureen Burnot
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder and the influence of the media in demand for plastic surgery: the importance of proper evaluation [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2023 Introduction: Since the beginning, plastic surgery has improved self-esteem and acceptance in a society that idealizes the cult of the body. The pressure of consumption and the ease of undergoing plastic surgery becomes an obsession in these patients ...
Alexandre Kataoka +3 more
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